His intellect was patrician -- almost deiform in the old Roman sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Orchard of Tears] Reference
Augustine, we change not this divine Food into our substance, but rather are transmuted and transformed by it into Himself, and thus are made deiform, and of one nature with Him. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations on the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.] Reference
We have within us, notwithstanding all our transgressions, what the old divines used to call a 'deiform nature,' capable of being lifted up into the participation of divinity, capable of being cleansed from all the spots and stains which make us so unlike. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference
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